After successfull release of Lubuntu 18.04 image for Tinker Board and Raspberry Pi, this time another flavor of Ubuntu with XFCE desktop, Xubuntu 18.04 LTS.Similar to the previous releases, SD card will be resized upon the first boot to extend to the max size of the SD. The root account password is forced to be changed in first login as well. This has improved the security issue preventing others to login to your system as the SSH is enabled by default in this image. WiFi and Bluetooth both work fine and system performance has been improved as well.

Sound/Audio work great without any issue. As always, enjoy listening to a Bonus Sound Track "A Way To The Heaven" composed and arranged by 'Saeid Ghazagh', available in "Music" folder.Includes custom Kernel 4.4.103 based on latest Rockchip-Linux Kernel including preloaded 1-Wire kernel deriver and Custom LED colors (Green: Device On, Orange: SD Activity, RED: Disconnected Network Module).

SD Installation Instruction

Download the Image

Burn it on a SD card with Win32DiskImager or simillar tool

Boot your device

Default User/Password:

User: root , PW: elar-systems

User: tinker , PW: tinker

NOTE 1:

Network setting has changed in (L)Ubuntu 18.04. Now it is using a Netplan application using a Yaml file for settings.

For minimal setting, something like this will forward all the setting to be managed by NetworkManager.

Creat a file in /etc/netplan/ folder with a name like <any-name>.yaml and place a content like this:

# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system

network:

version: 2

renderer: NetworkManager

If you need a certain setting for your wifi like static IP or particullar networking, then you need to add the ‘Network’ as render key and add your network configuration as explained in above two mentioned links.

NOTE 2: The Firefox crashes on ARM devices since version 52. Hence, we have removed the Firefox package and instead installed the Chromium browser as a default browser for this release.

In the release (version 1.0), SD card will be resized upon the first boot to extend to the max size of the SD. The root account password is forced to be changed in first login as well. This has improved the security issue preventing others to login to your system as the SSH is enabled by default in this image. WiFi and Bluetooth both works fine and system performance has been improved as well.

Sound/Audio works great without any issue. Enjoy listening to a Bonus Sound Track "A Way To The Heaven" composed and arranged by 'Saeid Ghazagh', available in "Music" folder.Includes custom Kernel 4.14.37.

SD Installation Instruction

Download the Image

Burn it on a SD card with Win32DiskImager or simillar tool

Boot your device

Important Note: The Firefox crashes on ARM devices since version 52. Hence, we have removed the Firefox package and instead installed the Chromium browser as a default browser for this release.

Due to the issue Firefox has on version 1.0, I marked current Firefox release as HOLD and have updated the image with working Firefox 52 for your convenient.

(Version 1.0 , Uploaded on 27/April/2018)

In the release (version 2.0), SD card will be resized upon the first boot to extend to the max size of the SD. The root account password is forced to be changed in first login as well. This has improved the security issue preventing others to login to your system as the SSH is enabled by default in this image. WiFi and Bluetooth both works fine and system performance has been improved as well.

Sound/Audio works great without any issue. Enjoy listening to a Bonus Sound Track "A Way To The Heaven" composed and arranged by 'Saeid Ghazagh', available in "Music" folder.

SD Installation Instruction

Download the Image

Burn it on a SD card with Win32DiskImager or simillar tool

Boot your device

Important Note: The Firefox crashes on ARM devices since version 52 . The problem still persists even on the latest 18.04 releae. We marked current Firefox release as HOLD and have updated the image with working Firefox 52 for your convenient. Should you need to move on with 18.04 updates which is not working at this time, you have to unhold the Firefox package and install it from source package.

Should you need to set it permanently, consider init.d service to set it at boot time.

(Update Version 2.0 , 28/October/2017)Tinker Board has added Overlays to it's kernel. Therefore, U-Boot has to load those overlays through "hw_intf.conf" file.

This download inclueds all you need to setup Dallas DS18B20 Temperature Sensor on your Tinker Board.Download the file, extract it on your SD card somewhere in a folder and copy(extract) the content of each folder to relevant path on your rootfs:

In the release (version 3.0), SD card will be resized upon the first boot to extend to the max size of the SD. The root account password is forced to be changed in first login as well. This has improved the security issue preventing others to login to your system as the SSH is enabled by default in this image. WiFi and Bluetooth both works fine and system performance has been improved as well.

Sound/Audio works great without any issue. Enjoy listening to a Bonus Sound Track "A Way To The Heaven" composed and arranged by 'Saeid Ghazagh', available in "Music" folder.